@RosLuP No, it isn't true. According to Judaism, the Law was given in two parts: The written and the oral. The written part is the 5 books of Moses (Genesis–Deuteronomy). The oral part was kept oral until about 2000 years ago, when Rabbi Yehuda wrote the Mishna as a set of mnemonic keywords to make it easier to remember the oral law. A few hundred years later, the Talmud was written as an attempt at reconstructing the the oral law based on opinions about how the Mishna should be expanded.
@Adám ok the laws in "The written part is the 5 books of Moses (Genesis–Deuteronomy). " without penalty of death for each transgression... For other laws i m pessimistic
@RosLuP All the 613 basic laws are listed in the 5 books. However, the details are filled in by the oral law. The transgressions which carry penalty of death are clearly indicated in the written law. Do you have anything specific in mind?
@RosLuP But they are not substituted. There are (almost) no new laws in the Talmud. All 613 laws are directly sourced in verses of the 5 books. The written law is simply incomprehensible without the oral law. E.g. the written law prescribes the wearing of "totafot". Without the oral law, we'd have no clue what that is.
@RosLuP One indication of the existence of the oral law is found when we are instructed to slaughter as prescribed, but nowhere are any specifications given, except in the oral law.
@RosLuP If you think that any particular law, as stated by modern Jewish sources, could be in conflict with the written law, then feel free to ask about it. I'm sure you'll get a very good answer as to how the interpretation follows from the source.
@MonicaCellio what do you think of this design? I took the border from the main site design, I'm not sure if that's okay, we probably need to check. But since this is semi-official, perhaps it's fine with SE.
(And for those who want to know what's going on: MonicaCellio asked me to think of a design for the community ad for Mi Yodeya Publications; judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4489/15463)
The one thing I'd suggest is that the words in the book would look a little better if they were rotated slightly to align well with the edges of the pages. If they could bend where the pages do, that'd be even better, but I certainly don't know how to do that.
@Keelan nice! Thanks so much for helping us out. As for the design, since we used elements of the design (with permission) in the books themselves, I don't think we need to worry about using it in an on-site ad for those books. (Also, for what it's worth, Worldbuilding got permission to use design elements to promote its blog and has used the design in an ad for the last year.)
@IsaacMoses agreed! I hope this time around the proposal gets to launch.
